Joe Biden has warned the Taliban that he will order a “swift and forceful military response” if they attack US interests.

US President Joe Biden has threatened the Taliban with a “swift and forceful” response if they attack US interests in their current military campaign, in which Washington maintains an opening civil servants evacuation campaign in which 5,000 American soldiers will participate, 2,000 more than those initially authorized by the White House.

Biden held a video conference this Saturday with senior security officials to analyze the situation on the ground. The Taliban managed to seize two-thirds of the provincial capitals in just over a week, with strategic conquests like the one made this Saturday in Mazar-e Sharif, and pressure is mounting on Kabul.

The American president, who said this week that he had not “regretted” the withdrawal of the troops, has now authorized some 5,000 military personnel to manage the “orderly and safe” departure of US personnel and other allies, as well as Afghans who assisted in the nearing mission., 20 years after entering Afghanistan. “We are working to evacuate thousands of people who have helped our cause and their families,” he said in a statement.

The United States, according to Biden, will remain vigilant against “future terrorist threats” from Afghanistan, which also include a clear warning to the Taliban: “Any action on your part … which endangers our personnel or our mission will receive a swift and forceful military response.”

This is how American representatives transferred it to the Taliban delegation sent to Doha (Qatar), the scene of negotiations which have so far not offered guarantees of peace to the Afghans. Biden ordered his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to support Afghan President Ashraf Gani in the search for a “political solution” to the conflict.

AFGHAN HERITAGE

Biden also wanted to set out in his note “how we got here”, stating that, no matter what, with him the “longest war” is over. In this sense, he recalled that there are already four presidents who have occupied the Oval Office with the war in Afghanistan on the table. “I will not pass it to a fifth,” he added.

The US president estimates that with nearly a trillion dollars invested in this war, and after the training of 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, it is time to leave Afghanistan. According to him, “a year or five more years of presence would not change anything if the Afghan army did not control its own country”.

Yes indeed, ruled out an “endless” deployment and pointed out that when he took over from Donald Trump – who had already set a March withdrawal deadline – the Taliban had been “in their strongest military position” since 2001. According to Biden, they then had Two options: announce a “short extension” of the exit deadline, as it eventually did, or “send more troops”.

With information from EuropaPress

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